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computer person maybe finally leaving twitter
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MLS has voted to switch to the European schedule

I know its a moot point, but I hope Colorado Rapids voted no.

Games at DSGP in December and February will be played in blizzards and ice and -10 F conditions. It will be hellish.

#Rapids96
"Being one of the few that isn’t aligned with the international calendar has us almost have an American exceptionalism," Don Garber said. "Saying that we’re going to play the game the way we want to play it, as opposed to the way the rest of the world plays it."

www.inquirer.com/soccer/mls-w...
MLS will move to a winter-centric schedule in 2027
The plan is for the 2027-28 campaign to start in late July, stop from mid-December to mid-February, resume the regular season through April, then have the playoffs in May.
www.inquirer.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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So this is happening right now...
November 12, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Ok, got the tripod and took my time.
November 12, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Mail in voting is great because I physically dropped my ballot off at the courthouse drop box yesterday afternoon and got an email last night that it was both received and counted.

Though, I do miss the stickers...
November 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year.

UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.

Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.

This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
October 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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I should be as clear as I can: there is no future worth fighting for that accepts as a compromise building detainment camps for undesireables, and it is incumbent on anyone looking to a future worth having that that we find ways to take care of each other without building Alligator Omelas.
October 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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A key aspect of authoritrianism is the targeted persecution of political enemies.
I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.

This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
October 29, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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The Zohran "aunt" thing is the funniest hatchetjob of all time. There was a prominent person in my childhood named Uncle Bonehead who was just a friend of my uncle. To this day I have no idea what his actual name was. This nomenclature is not unusual in my culture (recovered alcoholic Masshole).
October 28, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Microsoft has laid off more than 15k people this year
October 22, 2025 at 6:31 AM
I don't usually do this, anyway... stop scrolling and post two characters that bring you joy
October 22, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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“Let’s go, girls” and “hell yeah, brother” are both gender neutral statements
October 21, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Scathing, but all too obviously accurate, take on the AWS outage by @quinnypig.com.

You're engaging in professional malpractice if you don't share this with your stakeholders. Corey may be an engineer, but he communicates about the issues in an accessible manner.
www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/a...
Amazon brain drain finally caught up with AWS
column: When your best engineers log off for good, don’t be surprised when the cloud forgets how DNS works
www.theregister.com
October 22, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."
John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.
October 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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This frog is your FRIEND
He fights for FREEDOM
October 9, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”
October 9, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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There is so much unknown about how ICE intends to use Paragon's terrifying no-click surveillance spyware. We appreciate members of the House Oversight Committee for sending this letter and trying to find out how this spyware will be used.
oversightdemocrats.house.gov
October 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"
October 6, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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The bees have discovered Brutalism
Nature is healing
September 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Recovery is a constant journey, and I don't really even know what the final destination is... but at least I'm still putting one foot in front of the other, small progress day-by-day.

Still, I don't know what it means, to be human... a real human being.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM8T...
MARINA - To Be Human (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by MARINA
www.youtube.com
September 29, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Never been afraid of getting older
I'm much more nervous about these public servants
Kill the lights and shut the curtains
You ain't a real lion if you love the circus
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4PS...
Atmosphere - Virgo (Official Video)
YouTube video by Rhymesayers Entertainment
www.youtube.com
September 29, 2025 at 10:46 AM
I wish ours was a different world.
September 29, 2025 at 10:39 AM
don't give up yet
don't give up yet
don't give up yet
don't give up now
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjNy...
Metric - Doomscroller (Official Video)
YouTube video by metricmusic
www.youtube.com
September 29, 2025 at 10:39 AM